English
Related papers

Related papers: DP-Sync: Hiding Update Patterns in Secure Outsourc…

200 papers

Text rewriting with differential privacy (DP) provides concrete theoretical guarantees for protecting the privacy of individuals in textual documents. In practice, existing systems may lack the means to validate their privacy-preserving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Timour Igamberdiev , Thomas Arnold , Ivan Habernal

Process mining employs event data extracted from different types of information systems to discover and analyze actual processes. Event data often contain highly sensitive information about the people who carry out activities or the people…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Majid Rafiei , Gamal Elkoumy , Wil M. P. van der Aalst

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

Differential privacy is a popular privacy-enhancing technology that has been deployed both in industry and government agencies. Unfortunately, existing explanations of differential privacy fail to set accurate privacy expectations for data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mary Anne Smart , Priyanka Nanayakkara , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa Redmiles

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

Differential privacy (DP) allows data analysts to query databases that contain users' sensitive information while providing a quantifiable privacy guarantee to users. Recent interactive DP systems such as APEx provide accuracy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Miti Mazmudar , Thomas Humphries , Jiaxiang Liu , Matthew Rafuse , Xi He

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

It has been widely understood that differential privacy (DP) can guarantee rigorous privacy against adversaries with arbitrary prior knowledge. However, recent studies demonstrate that this may not be true for correlated data, and indicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Yanan Li , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Xinyu Yang

Industrial control systems are a fundamental component of critical infrastructure networks (CIN) such as gas, water and power. With the growing risk of cyberattacks, regulatory compliance requirements are also increasing for large scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Paritosh Ramanan , H. M. Mohaimanul Islam , Abhiram Reddy Alugula

The shuffle model of differential privacy (DP) offers compelling privacy-utility trade-offs in decentralized settings (e.g., internet of things, mobile edge networks). Particularly, the multi-message shuffle model, where each user may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaowei Wang , Hongqiao Chen , Sufen Zeng , Ruilin Yang , Hui Jiang , Peigen Ye , Kaiqi Yu , Rundong Mei , Shaozheng Huang , Wei Yang , Bangzhou Xin

Differential privacy (DP) is the state-of-the-art and rigorous notion of privacy for answering aggregate database queries while preserving the privacy of sensitive information in the data. In today's era of data analysis, however, it poses…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Sudeepa Roy

Differential privacy (DP) is a neat privacy definition that can co-exist with certain well-defined data uses in the context of interactive queries. However, DP is neither a silver bullet for all privacy problems nor a replacement for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

The introduction and advancements in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) variants have become a cornerstone in addressing the privacy concerns associated with the vast data produced by smart devices, which forms the foundation for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Likun Qin , Nan Wang , Tianshuo Qiu

We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Conformal prediction (CP) has attracted broad attention as a simple and flexible framework for uncertainty quantification through prediction sets. In this work, we study how to deploy CP under differential privacy (DP) in a statistically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Jiamei Wu , Ce Zhang , Zhipeng Cai , Jingsen Kong , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Lingchen Kong

Publishing streaming data in a privacy-preserving manner has been a key research focus for many years. This issue presents considerable challenges, particularly due to the correlations prevalent within the data stream. Existing approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Bo Jiang , Ming Li , Ravi Tandon

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

Deep learning techniques based on neural networks have shown significant success in a wide range of AI tasks. Large-scale training datasets are one of the critical factors for their success. However, when the training datasets are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Lei Yu , Ling Liu , Calton Pu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate